For the fourteenth year running, Japan's population has slumped to a record low. The non-foreign population dropped by nearly 900,000 — an unprecedented fall.
Having kids is a lot more expensive when you’re wealthy/middle class than when you’re poor (most of the costs like food, education, etc directly vary with your already existent quality of life), so to poor people it’s a lot easier to make the decision to have another kid. Also I don’t know about India but for example in my (third world) country daycare isn’t a necessity in the same way it is in the West so that’s part of the equation too.
Having kids is a lot more expensive when you’re wealthy/middle class than when you’re poor (most of the costs like food, education, etc directly vary with your already existent quality of life), so to poor people it’s a lot easier to make the decision to have another kid. Also I don’t know about India but for example in my (third world) country daycare isn’t a necessity in the same way it is in the West so that’s part of the equation too.